Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
by Joel Elkins
“Fubar,” one of the characters in the play explains, is an expression dating from the Vietnam War meaning “f**ked up beyond all recognition.” The fact that the playwright chose that as the title for the play gives the audience the immediate impression that something about the lives of the characters is not quite [...]
by D. Jette
This inaugural production from The REPO Division is a multimedia installation with four short plays clustered around a theme of apocalypse and a future post-human world. The work is clever and displays a giddily perverse attitude toward the end of civilization and man’s return to a primal state. The experience provided by the [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Photo by Meredith Donahue.
<3 is the emoticon for the heart, or love. It is also the mathematical notation for less than three. Both meanings pertain to the play <3 presented by the Brimmer St. Theatre Company, now playing at Studio/Stage in Hollywood.
I am always moved, impressed and inspired by anyone, or any group, [...]
by Joel Elkins
Editor’s Note: The following review was sent in by Joel Elkins as a response to my review of The Letters, which he thought unduly harsh. Besides the fact that this is so well considered and so well written, I thought it an interesting idea to present dueling reviews. And Mr. Elkins has also [...]
by Geoff Hoff
The Letters, by John W. Lowell, is a well written, well produced play about two people in the Ministry of Information in 1931 Russia, now playing at the New Place Studio Theatre, a tiny (read intimate) theatre in the North Hollywood Arts District that has two small rows of seats on two sides [...]
by Robin Kilrain
Editor’s Note: Robin Kilrain will be contributing a monthly column about theatre books. We welcome her to our site and look forward to reading her columns.
Before launching into my first book review for this site, let me address the elephant on the stage: why books here? Believe me, if anyone knows how much—or, [...]
